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- "Sinners" repurposed 'a warehouse full' of period costumes from Marvel's stalled "Blade" movie</p>
<p>Wesley StenzelJuly 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM</p>
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<p>Jayme Lawson, Wunmi Mosaku, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, and Li Jun Li in 'Sinners'</p>
<p>Sinners has a surprising connection to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.</p>
<p>Sev Ohanian, who produced Ryan Coogler's hit 2025 vampire drama, has revealed that the flick repurposed unused costumes from Marvel's long-delayed Blade film, a reboot of the original Blade movie trilogy featuring Wesley Snipes that was set to star Mahershala Ali.</p>
<p>"Ruth Carter was working on the Blade movie that ended up not shooting — which I think they're still going to make," the producer explained in a new interview with ScreenCrush. "At one point, that film was going to deal with the past around the same era as Sinners."</p>
<p>The Michael B. Jordan–starring project is set in 1932 in the middle of the Great Depression, and Carter — who won Oscars for her costumes in Coogler's Black Panther films — was able to pull from the work she'd already completed for Blade when it came time to dress the cast of Sinners.</p>
<p>"She happened to have a warehouse full of period-appropriate clothes, and it was like, 'Yo, we got to shoot this movie, like, tomorrow,'" Ohanian said. "And Marvel was generous enough and kind enough to let us basically purchase it at price."</p>
<p>The producer rejected the notion that the Blade costumes were used for Sinners' principal cast members, though. "A lot of the background actors in our movie are wearing those clothes," he explained, pushing against the interviewer's theory that "Mahershala Ali–sized" actors would have especially benefitted from the costume transaction. "It was all about the background actors."</p>
<p>Carter previously told Designing Hollywood how her work on Blade informed the Sinners costumes. "I was prepping Blade for Marvel, and it was a 1920s Blade story, and it got shut down because of the writers' strike and the actors' strike," she said in April, "so I was just in limbo, you know, having done a lot of research for this period piece about a vampire."</p>
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<p>Michael B. Jordan and Miles Caton in 'Sinners'</p>
<p>Once she heard about Coogler's idea for Sinners, she saw a golden opportunity to put that Blade research to good use. "I thought, 'Okay, I have already been living in that space for quite a long time, prepping Blade, and Blade's not going to happen, so let me hear it,'" she recalled.</p>
<p>Coogler told Entertainment Weekly in April that the film's central time-bending juke joint sequence, which features dozens of extras costumed by Carter, was among the project's most complicated to shoot. "We did a lot of rehearsals, and our crew size swelled up from that," the director explained. "We expanded for all of the extras and the dancers and all of the different materials we needed."</p>
<p>Shooting the scene on IMAX film proved particularly difficult. "It would be impossible to film it in one take," Coogler said. "They can only film for about a minute and a half — maybe it's a minute and 45 — because they rip through film at such a speed that you can only shoot for so long. So we basically broke it up into sections that were as long as we could film per reel."</p>
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<p>Marvel first announced Blade at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, shortly after the release of Avengers: Endgame. Six years later, the movie has cycled through multiple directors and screenwriters, and no longer has a release date set on Marvel's calendar.</p>
<p>"I'm just taking it a day at a time," Ali recently told The Hollywood Reporter of the film being stuck in development purgatory. "I would love for Blade to happen. We'll see. I don't know where Marvel is at right now. I'm just looking for the next great part. I really am."</p>
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